Where is the Quietest Place on Earth?

Why aren't we physically or mentally capable of existing in absolute quiet? Zero decibels. Why is there a slight apprehension of hearing our hearts beating, our blood rushing? Would that not bring comfort? The comfort that we are still "alive", that our minds are still intact (or detached). Why do we move away from what is real: flesh. blood.

Why is the possibility of experiencing the "true real" too much for our minds? Have we always had a fear of the this version of real? Why does silence disquiet the psyche?

What is noise?

Orfield Labs, Minnesota

I would like to go here.

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jeff

the breaking point of the brain

what is the human brain's breaking point?

as technology moves (as Ray Kurzweil puts it) into the singularity, the creation of superintelligence, and the gap between our time in "reality" and virtual reality becoming smaller and smaller, what will happen to the human brain? the infinite echoing of the mirror image. Our brain is a biological "machine" that is confined within the random and chaos of natural creation. A machine's intelligence is linear, and therefore much more logical than our own biological intelligence. Will our biological brains be able to handle the linear possibilities of a singularity? if we are to become superhuman, an age where we will be part machine, can our biological brains sustain the virtual? we were born from chaotic evolutionary mergers between single-celled organisms. what we have created, is not chaotic. it is ordered it grows it a direct line exponentially. will the process of creating such order within chaos affect the other parts of the chaotic whole?

does our quest to be god-like beings have a purpose? What is the purpose of creating more technology, that inevitably will be rendered useless? Hugo de Garis, a researcher in AI, discussed the fact that when we look at an insect, we have the ability to create its demise- we kill an insect, a pest, without any thought for it. As we come closer to creating superintelligent machines, as they gain more intelligence, than their human predecessor, creator, who or what is to say that they will not see us as mere pests. Thereby we create our own method of destruction.

why must we obtain infinite power?

what is the future?

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jeff

detergent design

"Whirlpool Soft" if you haven't tried it. you should.

i do wish i sat in on their design team meeting. it's so vibrant. but nothing which screams out ice cream. more washing powder: dynamic bright clean. will probably do nothing for my pearly whites, but who cares when we're all headed for the pearly gates?

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jeff